The June Minutes were reviewed, Mr. Leu's name was misspelled
and required correction. Bruce Wright moved to accept with corrections,
Michael Brennan seconded. Minutes accepted.

Dulles Corridor Metro Station Pedestrian/Bicycle Access

Don introduced the WMATA Dulles Corridor Team

John Dittmeier presented the proposal for the first phase of the
Orange Line extension to Whiele Ave in Reston. He focused his
presentation on the actual stations. According to WMATA, all road,
trail and pedestrian access beyond the actual station are the
responsibility of the local governments. See attachment for actual
presentation drawings and information passed out by WMATA.

In the Station facility planning, bicycle and pedestrian access and
storage are linked together. Walter Brodtman expressed concern that
pedestrian requirements, i.e. brick facings for walkways and other
access requirements are different than requirements for cyclists, wheel
chair and stroller users. Bruce Wright suggested that cyclist and
pedestrian requirements be separated to Priority 1 and Priority 2
requirements.

Wade Smith expressed concern that so much of the design is already
completed that changes could not be implemented. Neil Nott from WMATA
replied that only 10 - 15 % of the planning is actually completed. Wade
Smith then gave several examples of the current design features that
are unfriendly to pedestrians. Wade wanted to know how the plans can be
modified to make them pedestrian friendly. Neil Nott responded by
showing the Tyson's West site plan where the parking garage had been
scaled back in response to local concerns.

Don Emerson further asked how the improvements that the NMTC and
others had could be brought up to the designers? John Dittmeier
suggested that these be brought to future public hearings. John further
suggested a charrette to discuss many of the access issues being raised
by NMTC members.

Fatemeh Allahdoust from VDOT then explained the VDOT involvement. She
confirmed that the total costs presented by WMATA do not include local
access costs external to the site. VDOT is currently looking at
necessary improvements at ¼ and ½ mile radius circles around the site.

Sterling Wheeler from FFX County DPZ further explained many of the
local requirements at the sites. Many of the issues need to be resolved
balancing the needs and concerns involved with local property owners,
cost, access and other concerns. Jenny Pate suggested that a
subcommittee consisting of the local district committee members, Wade
Smith and Bruce Wright, WABA representative, Walter Brodtman, and
Community Representative Rebecca Cate be established to make formal
recommendations to the different entities involved, i.e. WMATA, VDOT,
and FFX County DPZ. Kevin Brugman made the motion, Bruce Wright
seconded and it was approved.

At this point Kevin Brugman had to depart and Jennifer Pate continued
taking notes.

New Business

Metropolitan Washington council of Governments again has the
opportunity to apply for participation in the Walkable Communities
workshops. Last year's application was not accepted. COG is
planning to submit an application to hold 8 workshops regionwide. The
workshops include generic safe pedestrian information, combined with a
hands on portion in which the area selected is walked and inventoried
and analyzed. Fairfax County will submit at least one site, with a
second site as a back-up in case some of the other jurisdictions don't
submit. First choice is the Route 1 corridor. Chris Wells and Sheng Leu
will be responsible for setting up the meeting if the application is
accepted. Chris will write a summary for the COG application. There is
a charge of $500 for the participating jurisdiction. The committee
decided to also look at the possibility of submitting something in the
Tysons Corner area. We would need a public meeting space for as many as
100 people within walking distance of the problem area.

Staff Reports - Sheng Leu presented the draft of a letter
answering questions posed by EQAC's Chet McLaren (formerly of the
NMTC). The intent of the questions is to get the NMTC more prominence
on EQAC's agenda. The committee supported sending the letter under
Ann's signature, with the following comments: 8. add residential
development criteria; 3. check with DPWES to confirm; 7. mention VDOT
regional bicycle planning effort and the studies done by the
consultant; 6. add mention of bike lanes on a portion of Telegraph
Road. Leu also reported that research into the status of trail escrows
is continuing. At the September meeting information should be assembled
to be presented. Chris is working on identifying available construction
funding. After this information is gathered, DPWES will be working on
cost estimates.

Jenny handed out a summary of projects currently under consideration
for the Park Authority bond referendum in 2004. Comments and
input are welcome from committee members.

Chris told the committee of a new effort by VDOT to identify and
solve issues related to pedestrian and bicycle policies. The
time-frame was originally set for completion by the end of 2003, but it
is going slower than expected. Representing the local area are Charles
Denney from Arlington, Allen Muchnick from the Virginia Bicycling
Federation, and Chris Wells. Minutes of the meetings and other details
are available on VDOT's website www.virginiadot.org. under
bicycling/policy and procedural review. Any comments or feedback should
go to the working group through Chris.

Discussion of Guidelines to Review Trail Waiver Applications deferred
until September. Jenny handed out the guidelines she currently uses in
reviewing stream valley trail waiver requests.